Tennessee standards alignment

• GC.05

  Covered

  Describe the purposes and functions of government as outlined in the Preamble of the Constitution.

  Covered by

  • US Constitution 101: The Document That Builds the Government

  • · US Constitution 101, Lesson 2 · The Preamble: who, and why

  Note: The Preamble is worked clause by clause as the purposes of government.

• GC.03

  Covered

  Identify the strengths and weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation.

  Covered by

  • US Constitution 101: The Document That Builds the Government

  • · US Constitution 101, Lesson 1 · Why a constitution? From the Articles of Confederation

  Note: Why the Articles of Confederation failed and how that led to the 1787 Constitution is taught as its own lesson.

• GC.07

  Covered

  Describe the structure of the Constitution and the process to amend it.

  Covered by

  • US Constitution 101: The Document That Builds the Government

  • · US Constitution 101, Lessons 2-9 · the Constitution analyzed article by article
  • · US Constitution 101, Lesson 9 · Changing the Constitution: Article V and key later amendments

  Note: The Constitution is analyzed article by article, and Article V's amendment procedure is taught with why the bar is so high.

• GC.08

  Covered

  Analyze how the Bill of Rights limits the powers of the government and ensures individual rights. (T.C.A. § 49-6-1028)

  Covered by

  • US Constitution 101: The Document That Builds the Government
  • The Bill of Rights: Know Your Rights

  • · US Constitution 101, Lesson 8 · The Bill of Rights (Amendments I to X)
  • · The Bill of Rights: Know Your Rights, Lesson 1 · What is the Bill of Rights?
  • · Know Your Rights, Lesson 2 · Freedom of speech: what's protected, and what isn't
  • · Know Your Rights, Lesson 5 · Speech and religion at school, and online
  • · Know Your Rights, Lesson 7 · Police stops, reasonable suspicion, and your privacy

  Note: The Bill of Rights is taught as a document and as applicable rules, including when government may and may not constitutionally limit a right.

• GC.19

  Covered

  Analyze Article III of the Constitution as it relates to judicial power, including the length of terms and the jurisdiction of the U.S. Supreme Court.

  Covered by

  • US Constitution 101: The Document That Builds the Government
  • The Supreme Court & the Judicial Branch

  • · US Constitution 101, Lessons 3-6 · Articles I-III and checks & balances
  • · The Supreme Court & the Judicial Branch, Lesson 1 · The federal judiciary: from district courts to the Supreme Court
  • · The Supreme Court & the Judicial Branch, Lesson 7 · Checks on the Court

  Note: Article III and the federal judiciary's structure, life tenure, and jurisdiction are taught directly.

• GC.04

  Partially covered

  Discuss the Constitutional Convention of 1787, including the Great Compromise and the ensuing debate over ratification between the Federalists and Anti-Federalists.

  Covered by

  • US Constitution 101: The Document That Builds the Government

  • · US Constitution 101, Lesson 1 · Why a constitution? From the Articles of Confederation

  What we do and don't cover: The move from the Articles to the 1787 Constitution is taught, but the Great Compromise and the Federalist/Anti-Federalist ratification debate are not worked in the detail the standard asks for.

• GC.06

  Partially covered

  Describe limited government within the Constitution, including: Checks and balances, Popular sovereignty, Civilian control of the military, Rule of law, Federalism, Separation of powers, Judicial review.

  Covered by

  • US Constitution 101: The Document That Builds the Government
  • State vs Federal Power: How American Government Is Divided
  • US Civics 101: How American Government Works

  • · US Constitution 101, Lesson 6 · Separation of powers and checks & balances
  • · US Constitution 101, Lesson 7 · Federalism: state and federal power
  • · State vs Federal Power, Lesson 1 · What is federalism, and why split power at all?
  • · US Civics 101, Lesson 4 · The courts and judicial review (Marbury v. Madison)

  What we do and don't cover: Most of the named principles — checks and balances, popular sovereignty, rule of law, federalism, separation of powers, and judicial review — are taught directly. Civilian control of the military, which the standard also lists, is not taught.

• GC.10

  Partially covered

  Analyze Article I and the 17th Amendment of the Constitution as they relate to the legislative branch, including: eligibility for office, roles, length of terms, and election to office for representatives and senators, respectively.

  Covered by

  • US Constitution 101: The Document That Builds the Government

  • · US Constitution 101, Lessons 3-6 · Articles I-III and checks & balances

  What we do and don't cover: Article I and the legislative branch's structure are taught, but the 17th Amendment and the specific eligibility/term details for each chamber are not worked in full.

• GC.15

  Partially covered

  Describe the powers of U.S. Congress, including: Appropriations, Declaration of war, Commerce, Implied powers, Confirmations, Necessary and proper clause.

  Covered by

  • State vs Federal Power: How American Government Is Divided
  • US Constitution 101: The Document That Builds the Government

  • · State vs Federal Power, Lesson 2 · Three kinds of power: enumerated, implied, reserved
  • · State vs Federal Power, Lesson 3 · The enumerated powers: Article I, § 8 (the Necessary and Proper Clause)
  • · State vs Federal Power, Lesson 6 · Concurrent powers: what both levels share
  • · State vs Federal Power, Lesson 7 · McCulloch v. Maryland (1819): implied powers and supremacy
  • · US Constitution 101, Lessons 3-6 · Articles I-III and checks & balances

  What we do and don't cover: Implied powers and the Necessary and Proper Clause are taught by name as part of the powers taxonomy (with McCulloch v. Maryland). The full enumerated-power list the standard names (appropriations, war, commerce, confirmations) is not surveyed item by item.

What we don't claim

A standards page is only worth reading if the omissions are honest too. We looked at these and left them out:

• The flagship's most distinctive Tennessee facts have no Tennessee code to cite. Tennessee Civics teaches, from Tennessee's own sources, the Attorney General appointed by the state Supreme Court (unique in the nation), the Senate Speaker who carries the title 'Lieutenant Governor,' the Secretary of State/Treasurer/Comptroller elected by the Legislature, the unusually weak simple-majority veto override, the 'Tennessee Plan' appointment-then-retention judiciary, the ABSENCE of any citizen initiative, and Tennessee's photo-ID and excuse-required-absentee voting rules. The 2019 standards' Tennessee State and Local Government strand (GC.28–GC.30) reaches Tennessee's branches and its county/city/metro local government, and that is where those lessons are mapped — but the standards do not separately name the Attorney-General arrangement, the weak veto, the no-initiative rule, or the voting specifics, so those flagship details carry no dedicated code. The gap is in the standards, not the course.
• English language arts, mathematics, and science — Tennessee's own, and not fetched. Tennessee withdrew from the Common Core and writes its own Tennessee Academic Standards for ELA and Mathematics, and its own science standards (not the NGSS). Each lives in a separate framework document we did not retrieve this pass. Our rule is fetch-or-don't-cite, so Tennessee gets no ELA, math, or science claim — even though the catalog's source-evaluation and research work would likely map to Tennessee's ELA literacy standards once fetched.
• The federal-heavy government standards we checked and did not claim. The United States Government and Civics course contains many standards beyond the ones above — GC.01 (European/classical roots), GC.02 (the Declaration's grievances), GC.09 (democracy vs. republic as defined terms), GC.11 (the census, redistricting, Baker v. Carr), GC.12/GC.16/GC.17 (leadership positions and executive departments as named lists), GC.14 (identify your current members of Congress), GC.24 (the Second Amendment), GC.26/GC.27 (the 14th Amendment case menu; Title IX and the ADA), and GC.33 (media's influence on public opinion — our media-literacy work is consumer protection, not political-media analysis). The courses do not genuinely teach these as written, so we do not claim them.
• The rest of Economics, World History, and US History we checked. Economics standards on market structures, money and banking, fiscal and monetary policy, and macroeconomic measurement (E.16–E.44), and the personal-finance content, are not genuinely taught. World History beyond the two imperialism standards (the World Wars, the Cold War, the Berlin Conference case detail) and US History beyond labor, the Great Migration, Prohibition, and the Harlem Renaissance (American imperialism and the Spanish-American War, the New Deal, the World Wars, the civil-rights movement's full arc) are not claimed. The reject list is the evidence the map was not padded.